Purpose: The purpose of this Instruction Memorandum (IM) is to request status updates from the Washington Office, State Offices, and National Centers on the implementation status of recommendations and corrective actions resulting from their CASHE audits. This information will be used to identify projects for Deferred Maintenance CASHE Corrective Action funding in Fiscal Year (FY) 2011. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will make use of this data to: measure facility compliance in the areas of performance of the BLM’s organizational units, risk related to facility compliance, future funding, policy, and training needs.

Organizational units that have had a CASHE audit between October 1993 and March 2010 are asked to update the status of those recommendations/corrective actions on the spreadsheet that will be emailed to them separately by their State Office Safety Manager, HAZMAT Program Lead, or Radio Program Lead.

Each organizational unit is to submit the completed CASHE status update spreadsheet to the CASHE contractor with a copy to their State Office Safety Manager, HAZMAT Program Lead,

and Radio Program Lead. The status of recommendations/corrective actions for CASHE audits completed during the period April 2010 through June 2010 will be from the reports prepared for those audits.

Please note that the instructions for completion of the FY 2010 CASHE status update clarify that, in addition to addressing the recommendations a CASHE Corrective Action may be considered complete under one of the following conditions:

(1) If a properly completed Hazard Abatement Plan is prepared and approved in accordance with BLM Handbook 1112-1, Safety and Health Management, and appropriate interim hazard mitigation measures have been implemented. (Note:If an office or center indicates a finding is completed because a Hazard Abatement Plan has been prepared, a copy of the Plan must be submitted with the completed CASHE status update spreadsheet. Failure to provide a properly completed Plan will result in those findings being listed as incomplete. The instructions for completion of the CASHE status update spreadsheet provide additional details.); or

(2)If the corrective action is under design or is programmed for construction during the current or next FY.

Implementation of CASHE Recommendations/Corrective Actions

Consistent with available budget resources and other programmatic concerns, organizational units are to implement CASHE recommendations/corrective actions and/or request funding for implementation within one year of their audit.

Timeframe: Please return the updated spreadsheets to Safety Officers, Hazardous Material (HAZMAT) Coordinators, and Radio Technicians by July 30, 2010.

Please note that organizational units that do not respond by July 30, 2010, will have their corrective actions shown as incomplete; negatively affecting the FY 2010 CASHE facility compliance performance measure; and be ineligible for deferring maintenance funding for CASHE Corrective Actions.

Background: In FY 2009, 92 percent of the BLM’s organizational units were rated in good safety, health, and environmental condition. This performance was based on information received in response to IM No. 2009-150, which asked the offices to update the status of incomplete CASHE findings.

Criteria for Annual CASHE Performance Rating: FY 2010 is the second year that findings from Radio Infrastructure (RI) CASHE audits are included in the determination of whether or not an organizational unit is rated in good safety, health, and environmental condition. The BLM’s National Radio Communication Division (WO-410) and the Business Resources Division (WO-850) have been performing RI CASHE audits since the beginning of FY 2008. The criteria for

determining if an organizational unit is rated in “good safety, health, and environmental condition” is defined as: